Comment from W3C member Academia Sinica
- Rick Jelliffe
I apologize if this has not made the last call deadline.
Ranges should be removed from XPointer and placed in XLink.
The reasons:
1) ranges complicate XPointer implementation;
2) ranges complicate explanations of XPointers;
3) a pointer should point to a node or a point;
4) a range is similar to an arc: the start and end have an affinity
to "from" and "to"
For similar reasons, I am not keen on multiple fragment specification:
it seems a shorthand for an extended XLink of some kind.